Fact & Fiction in Iberian Photojournalism
April 17-18, 2014
Screening of The Mexican Suitcase
2011 / Mexico, Spain, USA / 86 mins / Dir: Trisha Ziff
Thursday April 17th, 7pm
Sullivant 220
La Maleta Mexicana tells the story of the recovery of 4500 negatives of Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David “Chim” Seymour during the Spanish Civil War, found 70 years after the war in a closet in Mexico City. The film looks at the journey of these negatives from Spain to France and to Mexico, where they remained safe for over half a century.
Symposium on Iberian Photojournalism
From Capa to The Pigs
Friday April 18th, 12:30-2pm
University Hall Museum
Talks by Sebastiaan Faber (Oberlin College) and Richard Fletcher (OSU) on ideas of fact and fiction in the work of Robert Capa and his contemporaries in the rise of photojournalism in the Spanish Civil War and its development in contemporary Iberian photojournalism, such as Cristina de Middel’s Españ and Carlos Spottorno’s The Pigs.
For more information please contact campos-astorkiza.1@osu.edu or fletcher.161@osu.edu
Sponsored by the Humanities Institute Rough Draft Pilot Working Group and Iberian Studies Working Group
